Hi from UK
Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2016 5:33 am
Hey guys and gals.
I'm looking forward to talking to you all in the future but first a bit about me...
I started racing in the late 80's with a Mardave Meteor which quickly was replaced by a Schumacher Topcat that Christmas, which then turned into a Cougar etc etc
The last car I was racing when I was about 13 was a Yokomo 870 that had been modded with a top deck so was really like the US version of the YZ10 I guess. That was a car I loved but video games and teenage stubboness led me to stop racing.
Many years later (now 37) I have got back into racing (mostly due to my older brother doing the same) and I robbed a load of vintage Cougar/topcat bits from my bro to make up a car. That then turned into buying parts cars from ebay etc, you guys know how it is. I ran a mish mash Cougar for a few races at my local RC club which was fun but I needed a more reliable car with up-to-date electrics to really compete hence now having a brushless system Losi 22 which is rather nice and I am enjoying that.
I did however during the rekindling of my RC fun, get into drifting old touring cars around car parks with a friend and my first purchase was a HPI Sprint which came with a incomplete car I'd never seen before. Much time has passed and my obsession with Yokomo is bugger than ever as that car turned out to be a YR4-Compact. That car is now my drift car and I have two others, one compact that was new in the box, that sits on a shelf, one M2 special that is a parts car and an M2 Pro that I plan to, hopefully, make into a YZ10/870C/Works car that I can have fun with at my local car club. I'll start a build thread in the Yokomo section for that.
I'll put some pics below, some vintage ones from the 90's (my cougar days) and the others from my my journey back to RC fun.
Hope to speak soon
Yokomo YR4 Compact with rare Lotus body (came from a friend at Lotus was just in the warehouse)
Current built/running fleet
I'm looking forward to talking to you all in the future but first a bit about me...
I started racing in the late 80's with a Mardave Meteor which quickly was replaced by a Schumacher Topcat that Christmas, which then turned into a Cougar etc etc
The last car I was racing when I was about 13 was a Yokomo 870 that had been modded with a top deck so was really like the US version of the YZ10 I guess. That was a car I loved but video games and teenage stubboness led me to stop racing.
Many years later (now 37) I have got back into racing (mostly due to my older brother doing the same) and I robbed a load of vintage Cougar/topcat bits from my bro to make up a car. That then turned into buying parts cars from ebay etc, you guys know how it is. I ran a mish mash Cougar for a few races at my local RC club which was fun but I needed a more reliable car with up-to-date electrics to really compete hence now having a brushless system Losi 22 which is rather nice and I am enjoying that.
I did however during the rekindling of my RC fun, get into drifting old touring cars around car parks with a friend and my first purchase was a HPI Sprint which came with a incomplete car I'd never seen before. Much time has passed and my obsession with Yokomo is bugger than ever as that car turned out to be a YR4-Compact. That car is now my drift car and I have two others, one compact that was new in the box, that sits on a shelf, one M2 special that is a parts car and an M2 Pro that I plan to, hopefully, make into a YZ10/870C/Works car that I can have fun with at my local car club. I'll start a build thread in the Yokomo section for that.
I'll put some pics below, some vintage ones from the 90's (my cougar days) and the others from my my journey back to RC fun.
Hope to speak soon
Yokomo YR4 Compact with rare Lotus body (came from a friend at Lotus was just in the warehouse)
Current built/running fleet
